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Virgin birth in komodo dragon
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RE: Virgin birth in komodo dragon
August 31, 2013 at 10:55 am
Quote:So Jesus was a bastard in more ways than one?


http://www.jjraymond.com/religion/panter...jesus.html


It's a better story than the shit in the gospels!
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RE: Virgin birth in komodo dragon
August 31, 2013 at 7:39 pm
(August 31, 2013 at 3:35 am)Chuck Wrote: So the one true god is a Komodo dragon?

Leave it to nature to come up with a religion that actually sounds kinda cool.
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RE: Virgin birth in komodo dragon
September 1, 2013 at 3:27 am
I for one welcome our reptilian overlord.
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RE: Virgin birth in komodo dragon
September 16, 2013 at 10:01 am
It can happen naturally in fish and reptiles but I think the offspring will be a perfect clone of it's mother.
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RE: Virgin birth in komodo dragon
September 16, 2013 at 10:51 am
(September 16, 2013 at 10:01 am)Zone Wrote: It can happen naturally in fish and reptiles but I think the offspring will be a perfect clone of it's mother.

Does that mean Jesus was a girl?

Now that does change.....er....nothing.
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RE: Virgin birth in komodo dragon
September 16, 2013 at 2:03 pm
(September 16, 2013 at 10:01 am)Zone Wrote: It can happen naturally in fish and reptiles but I think the offspring will be a perfect clone of it's mother.

Actually in komodo dragons its always a male, so that way the off spring cab then reproduce with the mother and start a population.
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RE: Virgin birth in komodo dragon
September 16, 2013 at 2:15 pm
(September 16, 2013 at 2:03 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Actually in komodo dragons its always a male, so that way the off spring cab then reproduce with the mother and start a population.

I'm not sure how the female would manage to get a hold of a male chromosome to use. And surely the new population would be horrifically inbred?
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RE: Virgin birth in komodo dragon
September 16, 2013 at 2:22 pm
(September 16, 2013 at 10:51 am)max-greece Wrote:
(September 16, 2013 at 10:01 am)Zone Wrote: It can happen naturally in fish and reptiles but I think the offspring will be a perfect clone of it's mother.

Does that mean Jesus was a girl?

Now that does change.....er....nothing.

It would certainly put a different spin on her hanging around with twelve dudes.



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RE: Virgin birth in komodo dragon
September 16, 2013 at 2:26 pm
(September 16, 2013 at 2:22 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(September 16, 2013 at 10:51 am)max-greece Wrote: Does that mean Jesus was a girl?

Now that does change.....er....nothing.

It would certainly put a different spin on her hanging around with twelve dudes.

nationalgeographic Wrote:Males Only

The offspring of such virgin births are all male, because of the genetics involved in self-fertilization in lizards, Gibson explained
That's from the article I linked, but yes that would be allot of incest
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RE: Virgin birth in komodo dragon
September 16, 2013 at 2:32 pm
From what I learned in biology an animal population has to number 50 genetically unrelated individuals to be viable. Else what you end up with is this.

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And then they will eventually die out. Certainly Noah's Ark and Adam and Eve wouldn't have worked.
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